Again. Some towns have measured 51 inches rain. Since the storm began and the situation has become more dire for many in the city and across south texas. As of last night there have been nearly 19,000 water rescues across texas. The death toll has now climbed to nine confirmed but the images of the missing are circulating across social media. Among those killed was a Houston Police officer, Sergeant Steve perez. The chief of police spoke about how he died and how he lived yesterday. Unfortunately in the darkness Sergeant Perez drove to an underpass thats about 16 1 2 feet, drove into the water and he died in a flood. So, once our divers went out there, it was too tresh rouse to go under and look for him. So we made the decision to leave officers there waiting until the morning because as much as we wanted to recover him last night, we could not put more officers at risk. The wife had asked him not to go in. He was a sweet, gentle Public Servant and she tells me i told him not to go to
Word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, rachel. Such a sad kind of loss. People losing everything that theyve held dear. I mean, objects that theyve held dear. Souvenirs, all that kind of stuff. Just floated away. Its just its such an impossible thing to imagine going through. And flooding is always a persistent disaster anyway. Anything that gets flooded is a disaster for a long time. Yeah. For them to be in day five of this storm looking ahead tonight to a second landfall, to more rain, to further flooding but the waters not yet receding, the duration of this one is particularly cruel and this is going to be a long, long time digging out. Yeah. Youre one of the thousands of people in a shelter in and around houston tonight and no one can tell you, no one can tell you how long you might expect to be there, when you might next have something that you will call a home. Thats right. Because as flooding is hard anyway, but houston with flooding this widespread in such a gigantic metrop
Tomorrow and we will be with you every day until this great state and these great communities recover and rebuild to be even better and stronger than ever before. Kimberly President Trump has pledged to donate a Million Dollars of his own money to victims of the natural disaster. Tonight, growing concerns over potential of a new storm system to develop in the gulf, a report on that in just a minute. But first, great to mike Trace Gallagher is on the ground. If you look at the headlines it shows that the water is rising, and its true there are people going back into their homes in some neighborhoods being able to assess the damage. That only tells half the story, there are a lot of neighborhoods around the houston area where the water is just now coming in, with the flooding is come again and at the rescue effort is back in high gear. Watch. Flooded houston neighborhood, six days after the storm. The sun is shining and the water is rising. Imagine five or six days after the storm, someo
The waters not yet receding, the duration of this one is particularly cruel and this is going to be a long, long time digging out. Yeah. Youre one of the thousands of people in a shelter in and around houston tonight and no one can tell you, no one can tell you how long you might expect to be there, when you might next have something that you will call a home. Thats right. Because as flooding is hard anyway, but houston with flooding this widespread in such a gigantic metropolitan area, its going to change houston forever. Its going to change that region for a long time to come. This is something with he have to take very seriously in terms of a national sized emergency. Thats going to go on for a really long time. Rachel, later on in the show we have Michael Isikoff. Hes reporting that theres a movement in the National House Intelligence Committee to get President Trump eventually as a witness testifying to that committee. Its going to be interesting. I would love to follow the course
But now i see this is the cbs evening news. Good evening, im Margaret Brennan at cbs news headquarters in new york. Morgan and im Demarco Morgan in houston. As the Flood Disaster here enters a seventh night, rescuers are now going house to house to check on the welfare of anyone who might be inside. The death toll is up to at least 29. More than 19,000 people and than 1,000 pets have been rescued. In one sign of improvement, Power Outages in texas have fallen from 300,000 to 200,000. More than 33,000 people spent last night in shelters, and the red cross has now served a quarter of a million meals and snacks. Morgan the latest estimate is that harveys reign of terror totaled 27 trillion gallons of water, enough to supply new york city for nearly 69 years. We begin our coverage tonight with anna werner in port arthur, texas. Reporter helicopters from the coast guard to the National Guard pulled residents up and out to safety. A baby in beaumont. In west houston, a father and son. Boats